Falling leaves, round pumpkins, crisp apples—colors are everywhere in fall! Explore color in the world around you. What colors make you think of fall? What can you create with the colors of fall? Encourage readers to create fall-inspired art and discover the colors around them through bright photos and lively text.

Lerner Interactive Books introduce students to knowledge areas in core grade-level curriculum in an engaging format. With titles that span curriculum themes from pre-K - 5th grade, Lerner Interactive Books give readers a digital option for reading that allows them to read, hear, and interact in a way that will engage and motivate them to read more and more often. It's a fast path to deepening students' love of reading and learning.

From the opening page, audio and visual cues and easy-to-use tools help guide your students through the story. As the story begins, words are highlighted while they're read aloud. This type of word distinction better supports letter and word recognition skills, and keeps kids focused on the structure of how to read.

WATCH, LISTEN, AND LEARN

System Requirements

Lerner Interactive Books are delivered via the Internet under a single-user license. Additional licensing options are available upon request.

The following technical specifications are required to implement Lerner Interactive Books in a school or public library:

* T1 Connection or higher at building level (minimum); T3 Connection or higher at building level (recommended)

* Adobe Flash Player 9.0 or higher installed on each computer that will access Lerner Interactive Books (free download from Adobe)

Mari Schuh is the author of more than 300 nonfiction books for beginning readers, covering topics from tomatoes to tornadoes. She lives with her husband in her hometown of Fairmont, Minnesota, where she continues her lifelong streak of never baking a cake of any kind.

"PreS-K–Besides introducing popular seasonal activities, this series also spotlights drawing techniques such as shadowing, texture, lines, and shapes. A question-and-answer format inspires young readers to comment and expand upon the text. Vivid vocabulary is sprinkled throughout to engage students and introduce new words, such as nectar, checkered, and harvest. Winter explores how bright colors stand out from dull ones and asks readers to identify and sort different squares of color into bright and dull. Each title in the series ends with a Crayola color guide that labels the colors in each book with some of the uniquely named colors found in a Crayola box of crayons, such as "dandelion," "timberwolf," and "cornflower." VERDICT A fine choice that encourages readers to both explore their creativity and learn about artistic terms and colors in nature. Useful for primary elementary collections and medium to large public libraries."—School Library Journal, Series Made Simple

"Throughout, relevant art exercises encourage readers to try drawing techniques such as shading or using dots for texture. . . . Engagingly laid out and written, this concept book accommodates a variety of learning styles."—Booklist

"A spectrum of possibility is contained in this attractive volume of the Crayola Seasons series. Arranged into four main sections, the text highlights key attributes of autumn, from changing leaves and apple harvests, to a chubby-cheeked chipmunk preparing for winter, to clothes needed for cooler weather. Each two-page spread pairs a large, high-quality photo with simple text that often wiggles across the page or contains colorful adjectives printed in their corresponding hues. Throughout, relevant art exercises encourage readers to try drawing techniques such as shading or using dots for texture. In addition to color identification—15 of which appear in a labeled Crayola color chart—kids are asked to consider colors in terms of being dull or bright. Engagingly laid out and written, this concept book accommodates a variety of learning styles."—Booklist